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A SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. 



THE 



ORDER OF MIND 



GOVERNING MATTER, 



CONSTRUCTION AND PROGRESS 



All Things in Nature, 



PARTICULARLY APPLIED 



CONSTRUCTION AND ADVANCEMENT. 



MAN. 



CHICAGO: 
GUILBERT S CLISSOLD, Hook AND JOB PRINTERS. 

1 ST.".. 



A SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. 



THE 



ORDER OF MIND 



GOVERNING MATTER, 



CONSTRUCTION AND PROGRESS 



All Things in Nature, 



PARTICULARLY APPLLED 



CONSTRUCTION AND ADVANCEMENT 



MAN. 



CHICAGO : 

GUILBERT & CLISSOLD, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS 

1875. 






ADVERTISEMENT. 



If the question is ever asked, who is the author of this small work, 
the reply will be appropriate, if it' be said, that such knowledge is of 
no consequence compared with the circumstance, that its words and 
thoughts may be those of substantial truth, in which lie hid the 
elements of great power for good ; and as to this latter, the reader 
who will- peruse it carefully and thoughtfully, from the beginning to 
the end, can form his own satisfactory judgment. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D; C, 
BY THE AUTHOR. A. D. 1875. 



TO THE READER : 

The object of this System of Philosophy is, to improve the con- 
dition of Man ; first, by explaining the abstract theory of his construc- 
tion : and, second, by showing how the theory is made practical, in 
virtue of this knowledge, by the harmony of action it promotes as 
between the desired purposes of God and the desired purposes of Man, 
in which combination of thought in the two kinds of Mind, consists all 
progress as to human life, health and happiness as to individual Men, 
to Nations^ and to all Humanity. 

These ''desired purposes," united as one, are supposed to be, such 
a construction of the being of Man as would make him to be complete 
in every particular, with the view to his highest use, in thought and 
action, in the whole realm of responsible duty, in the place he is des- 
tined to fill in creation. 

This System, in a great degree, is one of abstractions. The prin- 
cipal ideas are few in number, but each one fills a place in the structure 
that no other one can fill, and the place and existence of each is essen- 
tial to a perfect combination in such a being as man. As each idea is 
supposed to be perfect in itself with the view to a specific use, so the 
whole combined as one, is supposed to be perfect in itself. Each binds 
the whole together, and the whole holds each in its true place of re- 
sponsibility and duty. These abstract ideas are all recognized by the 
common mind, but the order of their combination is not well understood, 
and hence much power is lost in consequence of the confusion to the 
Mind of Man that follows action, as with an undisciplined army in 
battle, when confronted with one whose organization and disposition in 
the battle is the best possible. The power of mental truth lies in its 
recognition as such. That condition fulfilled, it begets truth, and thus 
within itself it has the elements and power of progress, as is believed 
to be the case with this System of Philosophy. 

It is claimed for this System that its truth is demonstrated, in com- 
mon sense, in all nature as a whole, and in each and every created 
action and thing, and should it be so recognized by Man. that the effect 



and use would be to him, practically, in the highest degree beneficent ; 
for, by its power, order would encroach up n and take the place of 
disorder all along the line of human life, for the reason that the Human 
Mind would there meet the Divine Mind in truth in the processes of 
nature, and the weaker and less perfect would gather order and power 
from the stronger and the perfect, for the highest usefulness, and the 
result would be a gradual approximation in growth to the perfection of 
true proportion, morally and physically, to the attainment of all human 
rational usefulness and happiness in the being and destiny of Man. It 
is not supposed that this change will come suddenly, or Avith noise and 
commotion, but that it will be wrought as the power of secret prayer 
moves the Mind of God to work out his purposes of love in Man, or 
as the sunshine or the dews of heaven fall on the earth, and that its 
certain effect will be proven, from time to time, by common observation 
and statistical facts, as in other things. 

We repeat, the System is one of abstractions, and its effect will be 
general rather than partial to the common observation. By it the few 
can affect the many, and the circle of power will widen till all can think 
and act in harmony. Its disposition is that of love in truth, and its 
order of progress that of peace. By its power, differing nations, sects 
and conditions will more and more wish each other well and not ill ; 
and hatred, war, and the multitude of prejudices and vicious appetites 
and propensities that now work so much disorder of mind and body, in 
all the forms of human infirmity and misery, will grow weak in them- 
selves, and finally disappear, as they are compelled to give place to 
opposing dispositions and virtues. Those forces that work together 
for the health and happiness of Man will be made strong, while those 
that work disorder, sickness and unhappiness, will grow weak and 
powerless in control, in similar proportion. In a word, Justice and 
Mercy will more and more, in thought and action, harmonize together 
in all things, as they do in the Divine and Human in Jesus Christ, 
who ordains, that nothing that is Unjust in Man can be Merciful, 
and that nothing that is Unmerciful in him can be Just. And then 
will become to be recognized as a present fact and power, that "the 
Kingdom of Heaven is within you." 



THE THEORY. 



God is the highest possible power — Allwise and Almighty. 

Man is the highest earthly creation of God, was made in his im- 
age, but is less and limited in both wisdom and power, but is sufficient 
in each to meet the ends of his creation and to fill the measure of his 
destined use. 

These four abstract ideas appear to lie at the foundation of his con- 
struction, as the representative of all animated existence in Nature, 
to- wit : 

1. Organization. 

2. Perpetuation. 

•3. Sustenance. 

4. Protection. 

On examination it will be seen that these ideas are essentials, for, 
without Organization there could be no such a being as Man. But, in 
his structure, of what use would be Organization, if without duration 
in time, in himself, or in his species ? Hence, united in organization 
is Perpetuation, whose office is to prolong Organization till earthly uses 
are accomplished. Again : How could his Organization be perpetuated 
in time unless constantly Sustained ? Man must have air, food, water, 
and the power within himself to so combine the whole as to form new 
tissue for the body, to supply the waste or decay. Organization is Per- 
petuated by Sustenance, as an essential condition. There is still an- 
other abstract fundamental power, to-wit : Protection. For, all Life 
has its enemies that will destroy it, if they can ; hence, it demands 
Protection from its enemies. Thus, Organization, Perpetuated by Sus- 
tenance, is Protected from its enemies ; or read in the reverse order, 
from the external to the internal : Protection Sustains Perpetuation 
in Organization. Such are the differing characters of the four great 



instincts that bind the whole together as one Man — the mutual com- 
bination of the whole four in harmony, being essential to his complete- 
ness. 

Thus, these four powers are essential ones in fundamental element, 
in the continued existence of Man on earth, as the representative of 
the excellences of all Animated Nature, to-wit : 

1. The Organizing Power. 

2. The Perpetuating Power. 

3. The Sustaining Power. 

4. The Protecting Power. 

The office of the first is to Organize, the second to Perpetuate, the 
third to Sustain, and the fourth to Protect the abstract Man. Organi- 
zation Perpetuates Sustenance by Protection ; and, Protection Sustains 
Perpetuation by Organization. 

The idea is, that these four Powers in Man are mutual friends, are 
the fountain of, and give character to so many instincts, so existing one 
within the other, in the order of their offices, that they make a perfect 
whole, and yet, as ideas, are in themselves distinct, each from the other. 
If we withdraw from Man the fourth, his Life is destroyed by its ene- 
mies. If the third be withdrawn, Man perishes of want. If the 
second be withdrawn, time or duration ceases with him. If the first 
be withdrawn, nothing of Man, in organized material structure, remains. 
But, if we add the first, to Man is secured the order, element and form 
of Life, in Species. If the second be added to this, duration of exist- 
ence is provided for. If we add the third, substantial supply of those 
things essential to bodily support in Life is the result. If we add 
the fourth, Man is protected in health from those enemies that make 
constant war upon his Life and consequent existence here. 

Thus, these four powers severally organize, perpetuate, sustain and 
protect each other, and all combine in Man ; and they bind each to the 
other in harmonious form for the purposes he is designed to fill in Life. 
By them, he is Organized as Man in power and character. He is Per- 
petuated in power and character as Man. He is Sustained as Man is 
sustained in Life ; and he is Protected from the enemies of his person 
and Life, by them in combination. In virtue of their order in him in 
Life, Character and Person, Man is Man. According to the fullness 



of these several powers in Man, and the completeness of their combina- 
tion in him, consists his perfection in Life, Person, Character and Des- 
tiny ; but, on the condition that he obeys the voice of Grod speaking in 
his Nature, that ever urges man, in all his actions to the attainment, 
in his conduct, to the highest use. 

These six terms appear to constitute that Language, to-wit : 

1. Principle. 

2. Law. 

3. Result. 

4. Cause. 

5. Effect. 

6. Use. 

Each and all of the four fundamental powers of Man, as named 
heretofore, to-wit : The instinct that organizes, the instinct that per- 
petuates, the instinct that sustains, and the instinct that protects, 
obey the order of action indicated by these six terms in directing pow- 
er from its Principle to its Use in all that is comprehended in the 
Conduct of Man, and each and every distinct thing in Nature termin- 
ating in a use, bears their full and distinct moral impress in combination 
with each other in particular order, and with the four fundamental 
terms which they influence by choice, and which four, by instinct, 
influence them. Their numbers are but the modulations of God's 
voice in all created things. Man, in virtue of his creation recognizes 
these terms in his Character, and enunciates them in his Conduct. 
They enter into every thought of his mind and action of his body that 
terminates in a distinct use. 

Thus, Man is possessed of certain Natural Powers, which lie at the 
foundation of his Character. These Natural Powers have been named, 
to-wit : 

1. The Organizing Power. 

2. The Perpetuating Power. 

3. The Sustaining Power. 

4. The Protecting Power. 

Accordingly as he possesses fullness in these four terms, Man has 
the elements of a full and perfect Character as Man. Character is 



developed by Conduct,* by means of the Rational Faculties, and the 
Rational Faculties recognize and obey the order of these six terms in 
the attainment of every distinct purpose, thought or thing of use, to-wit : 



1. Principle. 

2. Law. 

3. Result. 



4. 

5. 
6. 



Cause. 

Effect. 

Use. 



All the arrangements in the Nature of Man by which the Power 
of Protection Sustains the Perpetuity of his Organization, as we read 
him from the external to the internal ; or, if read in the reverse order, 
by which Organization, Perpetuated by Sustenance becomes his Pro- 
tection, recognize the complete order of the foregoing six terms. In 
the duties of human requirement Man receives all things in his Natural 
Powers from God in Principle, the first term of this Language, and in 
the sixth term — Use — he returns the power so received to him in action, 
in virtue of Law and Result, Cause and Effect. God speaks in our 
Natural Powers to our Rational Faculties in this Language in all 
sciences and in the processes of science, and in Man, as a whole, and 
in every organ, fibre and tissue, bone, nerve and muscle, that go to 
make up the whole. They mark the order of the action of Mind in 
all created being destined to a use. In that order, a Principle, by a 
Law, flows into a Result, which Result, in a Cause, by an Effect, flows 
into a Use, as we trace the flow from the internal into the external. 
If we commence with the sixth term, we say, a Use is the Effect of a 
Cause, which Cause is the Result of a Principle developed by a Law. 
Thus, we trace power in the order of these terms from Principle into 



*Thus Character has its foundation in Instinct, and these terms define the ele 
ments of its structure, to-wit : 

1. Organization. 

2. Perpetuation. 

3. Sustenance. 

4. Protection. 

These Powers influence human action as Character influences Conduct, t but do 
not absolutely govern it, for Conduct is a thing of volition or choice of the Rational 
Faculties in Man, and the logic of its action is defined in the order of these six terms : 

1. Principle. 

2. Law. 

3. Result. 

4. Cause. 

5. Effect. 

6. Use. 



Use, through Law, Result, Cause and Effect, by synthesis ; and from 
Use into Principle by Effect and Cause, Result and Law, by analysis. 

So. we receive power from God, in Principle, and return it to him 
an the Use we have made of it ; whence it flows into Principle and 
hence again into L T se. In this way the stream flows from its fountain 
and returns to it again ; ready to commence again its perpetual flow, 
purified, if need be, in the Mind of God. 

So, these four powers are fundamental in the existence of Man, and 
on them in combination is founded his Character, to-wit : 

1. The Organizing Power. 

2. The Perpetuating Power. 

3. The Sustaining Power. 

4. The Protecting Power. 

In these four Powers, working in harmony, all the processes in 
Man are ordered, each for its special object and purpose, in the re- 
quired order of these six terms, to-wit : 

1. Principle. 

2. Law. 

3. Result. 

4. Cause. 

5. Effect. 

6. Use. 

Thus, in the order of power and place of these ten ideas, to-wit : 
The FOUR Natural Powers named, and the six terms that constitute 
the Language of God in Nature apprehended by the Rational Faculties 
in Man, all the things in his construction are expressed for their special 
Use in Life. 

A Man, full in the four fundamental Powers of Organization, Per- 
petuation, Sustenance and Protection, and those powers in Nature 
working in harmony in the construction of the human system, each 
and all combined to the accomplishment of the highest possible Use of 
each several part of the said system and of the whole combined as one, 
in the full force of the unerring logic and directness of a Principle, 
developed by Law into a Result, from an adequate Cause, by the full 
Effect of that Cause, would be a complete and perfect Man, for the 
whole ten ideas would be justly combined in his every part and in the 



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■whole, to make it so. In other words, it would be so, because it could 
not be otherwise, and hence, Faith. 

For, in all Animated Nature these ten terms instinctively press to 
a combination in individuality, the effort being, for Organization to 
meet its appropriate Use, the eight intermediate terms fulfilling the 
offices essential to the true order of the passage. If the whole work 
together in the fullness* of harmony, the thing formed is perfect in 
itself. Man being the highest of all Animated Creation, they may 
unite in perfect harmony and fullness in him, the highest Organization 
flowing to the most perfect created Use. 

Into such simplicity of relation do all the seeming complexity of 
things resolve themselves in Nature, when we trace them in their re- 
finement, in pure and truthful thought, and in such a frame, notice the 
plan and order that grasps them all ; which conducts each distinct 
thought of God in Nature in Organization to its appointed and special 
Use, and there Protects it from its enemies, till its Use is accomplished 
in time, in the place it is appointed to fill. 

Such is the abstract theory of Man. Could the People receive it 
in its simple form, and when they thought of Man, would they recog- 
in mind the ten powers and forms constantly combining in him to per- 
fect the fullness of Use on the line of generation of new tissue, or 
growth, the fullness desired in full and perfect Manhood would be con- 
tinually approximated, and the time of a generation would go far to 
work the renovation of the world of Humanity. Much of its present 
inharmony in Society would disappear, and much of the pain, sorrow 
and unhappiness from disease would be prevented, for their causes 
would be removed. These ten terms or ideas take hold on the living 
virtues of living things in the very fountains of existence, and were so 
planted there of God, to be so recognized of Man, and the condition 
of their recognition by Man. as striving to attain fullness in the human 
construction, in the mind of God, is the condition on which fullness of 
Manhood can be attained. 



*In the term " Fullness," in this connection, we mean that point of attainment 
in the construction of Man, as a whole, and consequently in each distinct part, 
where nothing is wanting to make perfect completeness with the view to the highest 
Use, and where nothing is redundant, which would be but added weakness. 



FURTHER EXPLANATION OF THIS THEORY AND 
ITS PRACTICAL WORKINGS. 

The First Illustration. 

Before applying the examination of this Theory of Philosophy 
more particularly to Man, in his construction, we would make further 
explanation of its general application to all the works of God, in 
Nature, as a whole as in every distinct part. .Let us refer to the crea- 
tion of the world, as revealed from heaven : 

The world was created in six distinct divisions, or periods of time, 
called days. Each day had its peculiar work. The whole was Organ- 
ized for Perpetuation, by Sustenance, for Protection in Time, in the 
order of Principle, Law, Result, Cause, Effect, and Use. 

In the First Day was created Light as a Principle, reflecting the 
image of all Material things. 

In the Second Day, the Firmament was created, and the waters 
above and below it were divided, in accordance with the Law of the 
Principle of the Light. 

In the Third Day, the Dry Land was made to appear, and Veg- 
etable Life sprang forth as a Mesult of the action and order of the 
Divine Mind. 

In the Fourth Day, the Lights in the Firmaments of heaven were 
created, as a developing Cause of the Principle of Light, created on 
the First Day. 

In the Fifth Day, the Fish of the sea and the Fowl of the air 
were created, as an JUffect in their order, to people the Sea and the 
Air, the work of the Second Day. 

In the Sixth Day were created the lower Animals and Man, to 
people the dry land and subsist, directly or indirectly, on vegetable life, 
the creation of the Third Day, as the highest Use. 

So, that in the First Three Days, respectively, were prepared habi- 
tations and sustenance for what was created, in the order of time, on 
the Last Three Days. 

The things created on the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth days, have an 



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affinity for, as an inhabitant for a habitation, the things that were cre- 
ated, in their order, on the First, Second and Third Days. 

Thus, the Sun, as a body, has its habitation in Light. 

The Fish of the Sea and the Fowl of the Air have their habitation 
in the Waters and. in the Firmament, and therein they exist. 

The Lower Animals and Man have their habitation on dry land, 
and subsist directly or indirectly, on Vegetable Life. 

In the progressive order of things, the Second Three terms of the 
Language of God in Nature have an affinity for the First Three, as an 
inhabitant for a habitation. Let us place them in the following order, 

to-wit : 

First Three. Second Three. 

Principle. Cause. 

Law. Effect. 

Result. Use. 

In the world, and the Life of the world, the Sun, as a Cause, and 
Light as a Principle, meet and act together. 

The Firmament and the Waters, and the Fish of the Sea and the 
Fowl of the Air, as a Law and its Effect, meet and act together. 

The Dry Land and Vegetable Life, and the Lower Animals and 
Man, meet and act together as a Result and its Use. 

This appears to be the machinery in the Organization, Perpetua- 
tion, Sustenance and Protection of the world and the things therein, 
as a whole. 

A Cause meets a Principle ; an Effect meets its Law, and the 
Result its Use. 

The Light that clothes the Sun, as a body, is thus united with it, as 
a Cause of action unites with its Principle of action, and hence the 
constant development of its power, and the life of all earthly things 
hangs upon the Effect of its Law ; hence, also, flows every consequent 
Result, for its appropriate Use. 

There may be contained in this order of division of these six terms 
the image of the two Sexes, Male and Female, that are recognized in 
reproduction in all progressive life. 

In relation to that great Use, the image of 
Principle, 
Law, and 
Result, 






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may exist in the one Sex. and that of 
Cause, 
Effect, and 

Use, 

may exist in the other Sex, Progress in the reproduction of life must 
consist in the union of these six terms, in this order, as one, and hence 
the necessity of marriage, for the purpose of new Organization to Per- 
petuate the species of each kind of living thing by Sustenance for its 
Protection, is apparent. 

So, "we repeat, the Sun, in the movement of the world, stands in 
the place of a Cause, and the Light in the place of a Principle. The 
two are in constant union, and the Cause developes the Principle by 
the Laiv of the Firmament and the Waters above and under it, and 
Fish and Fowl exist in consequence as an Effect in elements suited to 
their natures. The Dry Land and Vegetable Life stand in the place 
of Result, for the Use of the Lower Animals and Man. So, in the 
constant generations of the things of the world, in their progressive 
flow, a Cause meets a Principle, a Law generates an Effect, and a 
Result provides for a Use, both as to the whole world, and to every 
distinct part. 

The connection of the work of the six periods of time that span 
the creation of the world, may be traced in this Axiom : 

The Principle of Light in which consists the image of all material 
things, by a Law of the Firmament, flows into Vegetable Life, in all 
its forms, as a Result ; which Result, by the Sun as a Cause, develop- 
ing in the mind and power of God, Fish and Fowl in the order of 
living existence, as an Effect, flows into the creation of the Lower 
Animals, and finally into Man, as the highest possible created Use. 

In reconstruction of living things, the six terms of the Language 
of God in Nature may be read from the internal to the external always 
thus : 

A Cause developes a Principle, by, or in accordance with a Lau\ 
hence an Effect, with a Result, for a Use. 

Or, if read in the reverse order, from the external to the internal, 
the reading is: 

A Use is the Result of an Effect of a Law, which, from or by a 
Cause, has developed a Principle of Life. 



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SECOND ILLUSTRATION. 

In the foregoing, the order of the whole world is defined. Let us 
now examine the order of the action of a single part in the process of 
reproduction : 

Here is a single kernel of wheat. Common sense, with the proof 
of analogy, teaches me that the kernel contains within itself the ele- 
mentary power of Organization of new kernels, (one or many) to Per- 
petuate, to Sustain, and to Protect the Life of its species. The process 
of providing this is subject to certain conditions, which are, — that the 
Principle of life within the kernel be developed in the order of a par- 
ticular Law, by the force of an adequate Cause, producing a specific 
Effect. The Result is, the germination of a new plant, bearing new 
kernels, (one or many) as a Use, in Organizing, Perpetuating, Sus- 
taining and Protecting the life of its species, and keeping it in con- 
tinued existence in the world. 

Let us further illustrate the meaning and order of this process by 
the following supposition, which may be the true one. I have cast the 
seed into the earth, and thereby placed it in the power of the Chemical 
forces, the action of which may be this : 

Oxygen. 
Nitrogen. 
Hydrogen. 
Carbon. 

Oxygen is the Organizing Power. 
Nitrogen the Perpetuating Power. 
Hydrogen the Sustaining Power. 
Carbon the Protecting Power. 

In the production of the new kernel or crop of wheat, as in every 
one, the following chemical forces have, in some way acted, to-wit : 

Light. 

Heat. 

Positive Electricity. 

Negative Electricity. 

Galvanism. 

Attraction. 



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And in the process, these forces may have each acted towards the 
other as the terms, 

Principle, 

Law, 

Result, 

Cause, 

Effect, . 

Use, 
are related to each other in their action and power in all the processes 
of nature. 

• THIRD ILLUSTRATION 

Mind, working in Life, in the order of 

Principle, 

Law, 

Result, 

Cause, 

Effect, 

Use, 
For the purposes of 

Organization, 

Perpetuation, 

Sustenance, and 

Protection, 
Also in its workings, combining the terms : 

Nothing, 

One, 

Two, 

Three, 

Four, 

Five, 

Six, 

Seven, 

Eight, 

Nine, 
In the rule or order of 

Division, 

Multiplication, 

Subtraction, 

Addition, 



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counts, weighs, measures, defines and; makes all quantities and pro- 
portions of Matter that enter into the Human System as a whole, and 
in each and every distinct part, for the Uses designed; and by the 
twenty-four terms, in conjunction, all the problems of Mind and Mat- 
ter are accurately solved for every Use. 

A FOURTH ILLUSTRATION. 

Let us further illustrate the place and order of action of the ten 
terms that constitute what may be called the Vowels and Consonants- 
in the Language of God in Nature in living progress by a reference to- 
the plan of our system of Jurisprudence, the office of which is to re- 
store order in the State or community by means of Justice, where it 
has been disturbed by injustice and consequent disorder, which injustice 
and disorder work injury to the rights and properties of Men. 

The Principle of Justice resides in the People of the State as a 
whole, and the protection of human life and its properties from their 
enemies rest upon it. But, in that form its administration would be 
so inconvenient as to be inoperative. Let us trace it, step by step, in 
its progress in and by this system to its Use in restoring the order of 
Justice that has been disturbed. 

The several terms or ideas from and through which Justice flows- 
from Principle into a final Use, in our system of Jurisprudence merb- 
tioned, are the following : 

1. The State. 

2. The Legislature. 

3. The Court. 

4. The Cause. 

5. The Trial. 

6. The Verdict. 

These terms may be read as follows : 

The Principal of Justice in the State, by Law of the Legislature, 
flows into a Court of Jurisprudence as a Result: which Result in a 
Cause of Action, by the Effect of a Trial, flows into a Just Verdict as 
a Use. 

Here are six different forms in which Justice resides, from its hab- 
itation in the whole People of a State, to its specific form and use in a 
true and proper Verdict. 






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First, it resides in the State : Second it resides in the Legislature : 
Third, it resides in the Court : here (Fourth) Justice confronts its ene- 
mies in a Cause of action : Fifth, the Effect is, a Trial : and, Sixth, 
it passes into the Use of a Verdict, where Justice is restored to the 
community again. 

To analyze and compare further the six terms of the Language of 
Progress in Nature, we repeat, it will be seen that there is a well de- 
fined division of the same — each division of which consists of three 
terms, to-wit : 

( PRINCIPLE, 
First, \ LAW, 

( RESULT. 

( CAUSE, 
Second, 1 EFFECT, 
I USE. 

So, in the flow of the Principle of Justice in the State, the same 
division may be observed, to-wit : 

(THE STATE, 
First, \ THE LEGISLATURE, 
( THE COURT. 

(THE CAUSE, 
Second, THE TRIAL, 

(THE VERDICT. 

Mind, by the First Three, — 

The State, 
The Legislature, 
The Court, 

Organizes by Statute Law, the power to Perpetuate Justice, which is 
Sustained and Protected by the Second Three, — 

The Cause, 
The Trial, 
The Verdict. 

In the process, in a Cause of action, we appeal to the State ; in the 
Trial, we appeal to the common or statute law, as enacted and defined 
by the Legislature ; and for the Verdict, which is to restore Justice, 
where it has been violated, we appeal to the Court. 



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In this way we constantly strive to Organize, Perpetuate, Sustain 
and Protect the Principle and power of Justice, as applicable to each 
individual person, and to all alike, in the State ; and to attain this end, 
we recognize the six divisions of power, that, moving in their order, 
move all things in completeness of action, and which represent, in 
their several places, these universal terms : Principle, Law, Result, 
Cause, JEffect and Use. 



OF THE THEORY MORE CLOSELY 
APPLIED TO MAN. 



Man is the highest creation in earthly being. He exists in a con- 
stitution peculiar to himself. He inhabits a material body, which is a 
part of himself, but only a part. The body has been examined with 
all the labor of patient genius, and the manner of its particular con- 
struction is well apprehended by the Rational Faculties in science. 
Even the abstract materials of which it is composed have been resolved 
into their original elements in matter, and in what it consists in more 
refined and delicate forms, ascertained. But, the Material Body is not 
all of Man. After it has been resolved into its most delicate forms of 
matter, it is still only Matter. Mind and Life are something else ; 
and Mind and Life exist in man as certainly as Matter. May we not 
understand the order and place, respectively, of Mind and Life, as 
certainly as we do those of Matter ? 

And here Ave will again remark, that the nearer we approach to 
Deity in refinement of idea, the plainer and more simple are the laws 
of combination in all created things. As Man bears the image of God 
himself, we can look for an explanation of the plan of his living struc- 
ture, conspicuous for its simplicity in general arrangement. 

Man, in virtue of his place in creation, aspires to a higher state of 
being than mere Nature appoints to him. To accomplish this, he has 
certain conditions to fulfill in his own right and duty. God provides 
for him the helps and instruments of his ascent. It is for Man, as a 
condition, that he grasps and uses them. To do this, to use rightfully 
these helps, the faith of knowledge is an essential thing. What can a 
man rightly do in the construction of a house, for instance, if he has 
no knowledge of the foundation timbers of the same ? These timbers 
may be few in number, compared with all those contained in the whole 
structure ; but. inasmuch as the existence of the Avhole edifice rests on 
tlie.se few, nothing can be planned or done well till the name, place and 
use of these are well fixed in the faith of Mind. Let us proceed boldly, 



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yet with caution, to the task of defining the fundamental ideas in the 
whole human constitution and the essential place of each, so that when 
we think of Man, we may just as clearly think of what is essential to 
his health and full development, understar.dingly, without disorder, and 
all alike. 

And when we can all think alike of Man, in the depth of his being, 
we shall soon feel alike and act alike towards each other in the discharge 
of the great duties of life ; and in a word, be alike in good will and 
good health, in mind and body. In this theory, in virtue of the joint 
action of the mind of God and Man, humanity will grow into great- 
ness. 

The first form of power in man is Organization, and Organization 
is the result of the action of Mind in Life, in Matter. Action is a 
property of Mind, and Inertia is a property of Matter. As matter, 
in itself, is inert, and cannot move except as it is moved, Mind, in 
action, must be its moving power. If Mind works in the order of 
Truth to a given end, it has this great advantage over falsehood, and 
consequent disorder : It has the power of God to help it, for all truth is 
the wisdom of God. 

It is the evident condition of all Human Progress that the Faith of 
the Human Mind must rest on and combine in some distinct form in 
the Truth of God in relation to anything in which progress is to be 
made. If human Faith is founded in scientific knowledge, it is then 
so complete as not to be questioned by the Mind ; for, scientific knowl- 
edge flows from the deductions of the Human Mind, combined with or 
resting on one or more truths of God in relation to particular things. 
For instance, the six mechanical powers are so many Truths of God. 
The Mind of man by receiving a knowledge of them, so rests on and 
combines in those truths in thought that the combination becomes un- 
questioned Faith, on which the man acts with such certainty, that he 
contracts to build a steam engine, for instance, of a given power of 
action, or such other contrivance as he chooses, and he does build the 
same, it having previously existed in his own Mind as a thing of Faith. 
So of the human constitution. The abstract powers on which it rests 
are Truths of God, on which human knowledge may rest and in which 
it can combine, and then such knowledge becomes Scientific Faith, and 
by that Faith of Mind, progress is made in Natural Living Organiza- 
tion in Life and material being, until the thing is full and complete. 



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Man, in the complete abstract, consists of one idea, to wit : One 
Man. All that is contained in Man, in his many parts, so combine 
as to make one perfect whole, which whole is expressed in Mind, in 
completeness, in one idea — Man. 

But Man, in himself, contains four other ideas in which are repre- 
sented fullness for the purpose designed. 

1. The Organizing Power. 

2. The Perpetuating Power. 

3. The Sustaining Power. 

4. The Protecting Power. 

The first of these powers flows into the second ; the first, in the 
the second, flows into the third, and the three interior ideas flow into 
and inhabit the fourth, which is the external power. The four powers 
in Man, possessed severally of the above offices, are these, to-wit : 



1. 


Mind. 


2. 


Immortal Life. 


3. 


Mortal Life. 


4. 


Material Body. 



The first is the Organizing power in Man : the second is the Per- 
petuating power ; the third is the Sustaining power, and the fourth is 
the Protecting power of Man, in his earthly existence. In other words, 
expressing the same thing, Mind organizes, Immortal Life perpetuates, 
Mortal Life sustains, and the Material Body protects the whole exist- 
ence, structure and being of. man on earth. 

Mind, in Immortal Life, in Mortal Life, gives its external expres- 
sion in the Material Body, and these four powers, acting in harmony 
as one being, make the Man. In these four terms, in combination, 
consists human selfhood, in personality. They are and have been 
common to all human beings that have ever existed, that exists now, 
or that ever will exist on the whole earth. They sin mid exist in full- 
ness respectively and in combination — each and every part, in its 
interior construction and in all, acting as one with the view to any 
designed Use, in the order of Principle, Law, Result, Cause and Effect. 
And thus, heeding the same language of the Rational Faculties in 
Nature, in the fullness of power, in the fullness of order, and in the 
fullness of action in that order, every essential Use is attained and 



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every Use is protected in its office, all pressing towards completeness 
in the thing designed in each organ, part and power in the construc- 
tion of Man. 

It is not our purpose, in this place, to treat of the deficiencies that 
may exist in Man in the four fundamental powers of his being, or in 
the combined whole, but, to define in truth what he should bi\ that he 
may be made what he should be. 

And here we will repeat that Man should, be formed of these four 
powers in the fullness of their offices to make him a Man, perfect in 
his Selfhood, as such, intellectually, morally and physically, to-wit: in 

1. The Organizing Power. 

2. The Perpetuating Power. 

3. The Sustaining Power. 

4. The Protecting Power. 

These several Powers in Man are : 

1. Mind. 

2. Immortal Life. 

3. Mortal Life. 

4. Material Body. 

If these powers in the individual man are full, he is full in soul 
or character, and as such, is answerable to God in the discharge of all 
responsible duty, to himself, to his neighbor, to his species and to 
society. His Rational Faculties would obey the order of his Natural 
Powers in Principle, Law, Result, Cause and Effect in the attainment 
of every distinct Use that exists in or proceeds from the Material 
Body, as the Personal Protecting power, on earth of his Mortal Life, 
his Immortal Life and his Mind. 

Such is the power and quality of the human Mind, that if this 
idea is clearly apprehended in the force of scientific Faith, if it be 
determined that these four conditions shall be full and complete on the 
line of generation, they will be ; for the Mind of God and Man would 
unite therein to make it so — and hence, completeness in the funda- 
mental elements of character. In that w r ay can be laid a large, broad, 
tough and enduring Personality in Men and Nations, which character 
should be developed in conduct in the Providence of God and Man. 

Man, in virtue of his being Man, has certain duties and responsi- 



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bilities that he owes, under God, to himself, as Male and Female, to 
his Species, and to Society. By Society, we mean, all those organiza- 
tions wherein men unite for mutual protection in well-being, as Fami- 
lies and Nations. 

It is the order of Nature, that all Mortal Life must die, and the 
Material Body, its habitation, decay ; yet, Man, in his Species, con- 
tinues in Perpetuity. In individual personality, Men disappear from 
earth, one after another, till all who have lived at any given point of 
time are gone from earthly existence. Yet their descendants live in 
the family, in nations, and in the species. The family, the nation, and 
the species are each and all composed of individual persons. Individ- 
ual persons all die, but those societies of which the individual persons 
compose the whole, may continue to exist, in virtue of the order in 
Nature of the Sustaining power of the Providence of God, in Male, 
Female and Offspring. For Man, in himself, has the power of repro- 
duction ; of furnishing to his species new beings like himself in gen- 
eral conformation and personality, and thus the increase of human 
beings supplies the waste caused by death, and thus is kept in life and 
responsibility on earth the species of Man. 

This supply of the species with new human beings, to take the 
place of those who pass away by death, comes of generation. The 
four constituents of Personality, in its fullness have been named. New 
generation supposes new Personality, distinct from the old, as one unit 
is distinct from another unit, but possessed of like constituent elements, 
in fundamental structure. 

In the order of things in relation to Man in this progressive now 
of the stream of Life four great ideas exist, around which all things 
revolve, or from which all progress is evolved, and they are named as 
follows — and they are related to each other in the order in which they 
stand, as numbered, from the internal to the external, to-wit : 

1. Faith. 

2. Time. 

• i. Offspring. 

4. Divine Justick. 

These appear to be the fundamental powers of human Conscious- 
ness in the Soul of Man, that enable him to apprehend the right of 
every useful thing, and to recognize the wrong. In combination they 



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are the guide of Moral Action, directing the Soul, by the Rational 
Faculties, to distinguish and to attain each and every rational Use, 
touching every responsible human duty, by Principle, Law. Result, 
Cause and Effect. 

Faith, in Time, in Offspring, is Protected in Divine Justice. 

1. Faith is the Organizing Power. 

2. Time is the Perpetuating Powek. 

3. Offspring is the Sustaining Power. 

4. Divine Justice is the Protecting Power in the Conscience 
of Man, in all things relating to himself, to his neighbor, to his 
species, and to God. If these four powers are full and perfect in the 
individual Man, the one operating in the other as an inhabitant in its 
habitation, Conscience will ever be in the Soul of man a voice of warn- 
ing urging him to do that which is right and dissuading him from that 
which is wrong, in all things that relate to himself, to his Neighbor, to 
his Species, and to God, in all responsible duty in Life and conduct. 

We have now defined the conditions and order of full Manhood, 
and also the conditions of a full Conscience in that Manhood. In the 
full Soul we have an Acto?\ and in the full Conscience, a Guide to 
right action, and both equal in power to discharge the duties of the 
office to which they are appointed severally to fill. In all the actions 
of Life, Conscience points Man to the Use of the action as the object 
of duty, and Principle, Law, Result. Cause and Effect arc represented 
in the Use of every action. 

The highest Use in Nature to which Conscience can point is the 
Organization, Perpetuation, Sustenance and Protection of Man in the 
fullness of his power, in his species, which powers are represented in a 
new human being, in 

1. New Mind. 

2. .New Immortal Life. 

3. New Mortal Life. 

4. New Material Body. 

But, in progressive life, in the order of Nature, the Use in a thing 
is dependent on previous action, and there are four actions in which 
all humanity rest, and by which, as conditions, they have existed since 
the first creation in Adam. The names of these actions or ideas are as 
follows, to-wit : 



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1. Marriage. 

2. Conception. 

3. Gestation. 

4. Birth. 

1. Marriage is the Organizing Action. 

2. Conception is the Perpetuating Action. 

3. Gestation is the Sustaining Action. 

4. Birth is the Protecting Action of the species of Man, in gene- 
ration, in the order of Nature, and ever must be. They relate to each 
other as the four powers of Manhood, or as the four fundamental pow- 
ers of Conscience relate to each other — their power grasps all human- 
ity in Natural action, as the second four do in Conscience, or the first 
four in Purpose. The first four are these : 

1. Mind. 

2. Immortal Life. 

3. Mortal Life. 

4. Material Body. 

In these four is contained the desire and purpose of new human 
being, to supply the waste of the species caused by death. 
The second four are these : 

1. Faith. 

2. Time. 

3. Offspring. 

4. Divine Justice. 

In these four, in combination, consists the Conscience that directs 
and holds all essential action flowing from that purpose to its fullness 
in specific Use, — the completeness of Man on the line of generation. 

The third four are these, in which the Purpose, in the Conscience. 
is expressed in Action, in the order of Nature, for the Sustenance of 
the Species of Man, to-wit : 

1. Marriage. 

2. Conception. 

3. Gestation. 

4. Birth. 

In the first four consists the power of purpose ; in the second four 
consists the power of right order in that purpose; in the third four 



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consists the power of purpose in the order of Natural action. In the 
first four is Organization ; in the second four is Perpetuation ; in the 
third four is Sustenance, and in a fourth four, which is the image of 
the first four in name, but distinct in person, to-wit : 

1. New Mind. 

2. New Immortal Life. 

3. New Mortal Life. 

\. New Material Body, 

is the Protection of the Species of Man. 

The last term, it will be seen, is the representative of the other 
fifteen in combination, for the power of all have flown into it. In it 
are represented the Personality of Man, and all his rights in himself, 
and also, all his duties and responsibilities in and to his Species. 
Hence, in the weakness of the infant child is represented the Life and 
existence of the Species of Man, in all his thought and power, to be 
developed in the order of Nature, in the course of time. 

The Sixteen ideas are these, to wit : 



1. 


Mind. 


1. Faith. 


1. Marriage. 


1. 


New Mind. 


2. 


Immortal Life. 


2. Time. 


2. Conception. 


2. 


New Immortal Life 


3. 


Mortal Life. 


3. Offspring. 


3. Gestation. 


3. 


New Mortal Life. 


4. 


Material Body. 


4. Divine Justice. 


4. Birth. 


4. 


New Material Body. 



The first of these families Organizes, the second Perpetuates, the 
third Sustains, and the fourth Protects the Species of Man on earth. 

In the first four consists Personality ; in the second four consists 
right order of action with the object of new personality ; in the third 
four consists right action, so purposed and so ordered ; in the fourth 
four consists new Personality. 

From fullness in the first four, in fullness in the second four, by 
fullness in third four, proceeds fullness in the. fourth four. 

These conditions being fulfilled, in the infant child would be con- 
tained the elements of a perfect Manhood. If in one infant child, why 
not in all ? If in all, there would exist at the beginning the elements 
of a most profound destiny in the world of Man. When a child was 
thus born into the world, he would have in his favor, those abstract 
fundamental powers on which human greatness in usefulness is built in 
life and character in the physical and moral world. In his very nature 
he would be possessed of great breadth of synthesis, to be developed in 
due time, by a proportioned depth of analysis in life and actions and 



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experiences'. He would have, in Temperament, a substantial foundation 
in the Government of the Providence of God, whereon to build a 
structure worthy of the name of Man. In this way will the wisdom 
and power of God help the Faith of Man to perfect humanity in the 
highest possible form of Truth and beauty of proportion, and in sub- 
stantial greatness. 

It is seen, that by this theory, the foundation powers on which 
human nature rests in Man are laid before the child is born into the 
wo?'ld ; or, at any rate, before the new being has any duty or respons- 
ibility in virtue of itself. How, then, is any force to be exercised, or 
to be brought to bear, so as to make that full that were otherwise de- 
ficient ? This responsibility and duty rests with others, in proportion 
to the light given them in relation thereto. There is a great abstract 
power that we call the Public Mind, that seems to consist of the 
average force of a whole community of mind touching any one thing. 
It is the general average in a nation of all of its organizing power, all of 
its perpetuating power, all of its sustaining power, and all of its pro- 
tecting power, the same as if it were represented in one Man, in one 
Mind, in one Faith. It is not the general average of the organizing 
power alone — the Mind of Man — but, it is that of the four great pow- 
ers of Man, combined in the Material Body, the Protecting power, and 
all of which, if full, make the full Man. If it be thought that all vir- 
tue consists in improving the Mind to its full extent in a Nation, the 
effect will be that the powers that guard its Perpetuation, its Sustenance 
and its Protection will become emasculated and weak in proportion, as 
injustice has been done them. But, this general average, we repeat, 
is that of the sum of the whole four powers combined, as they exist in 
the proportionate fullness or weakness of a nation. It is true, that 
Mind in Man is the opening door, but it is only to one of the four 
apartments, and it is the welcome visitor of all the rest, and the con- 
stant inhabitant. So, this Public Mind that we speak of is the average 
Mind of the Public Manhood — the Soul. What is wanted is, to make 
this full in its four-fold character, and yet, complete in its oneness of 
person in being and action, so that there may flow from this Public 
Mind of a Nation's Manhood, a great and powerful Public Faith, which 
will become the Organizing power of Man in Time as the Perpetuating 
power, in Offspring as the Sustaining power, and in Divine Justice as 



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the Protecting power of the Manhood of the Nation. If Faith in these 
four powers be full, in a Nation, it will be possessed of the elements 
of vast and enduring greatness. It would act on the whole line of 
generation as a decree of heaven to be executed on earth, in the force 
of a great destiny, for God and Man would work together to the same 
great end of human exaltation and happiness.* 

In nothing can we accomplish much without a purpose of what we 
want to do clearly defined in the Mind, and the more full and clear 
the purpose, the more certain we are of its accomplishment. The pur- 
pose must be right in itself. The power of its accomplishment suffi- 
cient, and the order of its accomplishment true. . For instance, we wish 
to build up a Nation great in all its elements, to-wit: In organization, 
in the power of duration, in the poAver to sustain itself, and in the pow- 
er to protect itself. The human Mind is so constituted that it cannot 
consider each individual of a Nation singly by himself, though it can 
include the millions in a Nation, in a single idea, and by thinking of 
the Nation in its oneness, can conceive of it as it should be in fullness, 
the same as if it were one individual person, and in this way, may 
think of and affect every one included in the whole. For, we can think 
of a Nation as a whole with the same ease and distinctness as we can 
think of one Man as a whole ; and we can as clearly recognize the 
fact, and feel that a Nation should be possessed of fullness in all the 
true elements of Organization, Perpetuation, Sustenance and Protec- 
tion, as we can that a single individual should be so ; and, also, that 
this fullness is to be developed as a Use from Principle, Law and Re- 
sult, Cause and Effect. 

By the recognition of this theory in this simple form of thought, 
the Mind of Man will coincide with the Mind of God in truth, and 
the effect would be, Man would approximate to full and true Manhood, 



*In stating this condition of National Progress, by the perfection of the individ- 
ual Man, we do not invent, but describe only what now exists. It is this power of 
Public Faith that makes us to feel that a child born in England or Scotland will par- 
take of the peculiarities of the Englishman or the Scotchman, and this feeling is 
proof of the Faith. It makes the Frenchman the Frenchman, as we see him, and 
it makes and keeps the Jew the Jew, and so of all others. VVe here simply show 
the Cause of these national phenomena in Nature, and how the Cause meeting and 
developing the Principle by its own essential Law, can Effect, a Result for this highest 
possible Use, and fix its own peculiar Organization, as a nation, its own power of 
Perpetuation, as such, its own power of Sustenance, and its own power of Protection. 



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and Nations of Men would approximate to full and true Nationality, 
in the power of — 

1. ORGANIZATION. 

2. PERPETUATION. 

3. SUSTENANCE, and 

4. PROTECTION. 

Moved in the order of — 



1. 


PRINCIPLE. 


2, 


LAW. 


3. 


RESULT. 


4. 


CAUSE. 


5. 


EFFECT. 


6. 


USE. 



OF THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS OF 
CONSCIENCE. 



In the order of things, four great ideas permeate and include all 
organized thought, all perpetuity of action, all sustenance of living 
progress, and all protection of the Material Body in Man, to-wit : 

1. Faith. 

2. Time. 

3. Offspring. 

4. Divine Justice. 

Faith Organizes, Time Perpetuates, Offspring Sustains, and Di- 
vine Justice Protects Man in all the world of thought and action. 
These ideas balance all conduct in truth, in relation to all things of 
moral movement. 

They. fix the character and regulate the conduct of Man, for his 
best good, in all things relating to Himself, to his Neighbor and to God. 

For the best good of Man in Himself, of Man in his Neighbor, of 
Man in Society, and of Man in his relation to Deity, they fix his char- 
acter and regulate his conduct. The Uses of Faith, the Uses of Time, 
the Uses of Offspring, and the Uses of Divine Justice, are results that 
are the essentials of all progress in the moral and physical being of 
Man. They are the fountain and foundation of the human Conscience, 
and if the Man be full in the conception and knowledge of these four 
ideas, his Conscience will be right as to all essential things. To ex- 
plain this more completely, let us examine each with a clear and sub- 
stantial analysis, taking the terms in the order in which they stand. 



OF FAITH. 



The great organizing power of Man, is Mind. The great perpetu- 
ating power of Mind, in relation to other things, is Faith, or Mind, 
organized in thought, in the logic of conscious Truth. Faith is the 
Result of the action of Mind as a Principle, developed by Volition as 
a Law. combining in or with certain truths of God, fixed for Man's 
special Use, so that he can cling to them with unerring certainty, as 
far as those truths are concerned. He must, as a condition, embrace 
those truths of God in clearness of thought, with the view to an object 
or distinct purpose- Take, for instance again, the six mechanical pow- 
ers, to-wit : The Lever, the Plane, the Wedge, the Axle, the Pulley 
and the Screw. These are six truths of God. Man combines them 
with the view to effect some purpose. The truths are thoughts of God. 
The combination of them to effect the purpose is the work of the 
Mind of Man. The two powers, (those of God and those of man), 
make Faith, and from the union flows power, proportioned to the ful- 
fillment of the purpose. The essential steps with the mechanical pow- 
ers can be calculated by numbers, with mathematical exactness, and 
the result is, Mathematical Faith. This has been demonstrated as 
truth in the Mind by means of the four fundamental rules of Number 
combining the nine digits and the cypher. 

What we want is, Moral Faith, with the view to particular Use. 
Hence, we say, if Man be organized for his highest Use, as man ; if 
that perfect organization be permeated with the power of Perpetuation, 
and if the two have the power of Sustenance, and the. three have the 
power of Protection, binding them altogether as one; and if the whole 
has been done in the unerring logic of a Principle, imbued with the 
virtue of full Manhood, and this Principle of fullness, developed by a 
full and perfect Law to that end, flows into a full and perfect Result, 
in virtue of a full and adequate Cause, producing a like Effect, and 
reaching and filling its complete intended Use, — we say, these condi- 
tions being fulfilled, we have full Moral Faith that the living thing 
formed will be imbued with all the powers and qualities of complete 



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Manhood, evolved from the original Principle. The ten ideas ending 
in the great Use are truths of God. The recognition of them, as work- 
ing together in this logical order of truth in fullness of power to the 
desired end, is the office of Man, and the union of the two, (the wisdom 
of God and the knowledge of Man), beget, on the line of generation, 
the fullness that God would have, and Man may have, in the growing 
up of a perfect Manhood. The consciousness that those with whom 
rests the power to do this thing are willing to do it ; that the power to 
do it is sufficient ; that its action is efficient, and that the order of its 
action as a directing guide is equal to its full accomplishment in its 
place in Time, are essentials of the Faith of Man in iis accomplish- 
ment. 

Man being the highest and most perfect of all earthly created be- 
ings, Faith in the power of his reproduction in completeness, on the 
line of generation, full in the four fundamental powers of his character 
and in the power of their development, in the order of the six terms 
of the Language of God in Nature, in Time, is the highest form of 
Human Faith. 

There appear to be Twenty-four essential ideas fundamental to the 
reproduction of a new human being — twenty-three of which flow into 
a twenty-fourth — Birth of a Mortal, Immortal, Mortal and Material 
Man. 

Each and everything of living Faith must be combined in Faith, 
with the view to special Use ; consequently, these ten terms must be 
employed thereby or therein : The Organizing power, the Perpetuat- 
ing power, the Sustaining power, and the Protecting power. Also, 
Principle, Law, Result, Cause, Effect and Use. For in the construc- 
tion of each living thing, that it may challenge full Faith in the Mind, 
it must be organized in Truth. It must be put together on some true 
plan with the view to its ultimate Use. It must be Perpetuated in 
Truth, for what is true now, is true forever in relation to that thing. 
It must be Sustained in the logic of Truth, and Protected by Truth, so 
that no falsehood can by any means enter in to destroy it. In all this, 
the Principle of Truth in every action must be developed by the Law 
of Truth that it may flow into a true Result. It must have been 
moved by a true and sufficient Cause, producing a true and efficient 
Effect, in order to reach the consummation of its true and appointed 



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Use. In this it is seen how the ten terms have each an inevitable and 
appropriate place in the Faith that we entertain in relation to the con- 
struction of Man, and each and every organ and part of Man. 

In the reproduction of new human beings for the protection of Man 
in his species, these twenty-four terms are essential to human Faith. 
If any one of them is omitted, the machinery is imperfect or weak ; it 
would work a weakness and imperfection in the whole, for the propor- 
tion of power, or its flow, Avould be impaired in consequence. The 
terms are these, divided into six families of four terms each, to-wit : 



1. 


1. 
Mind, 


1. 


2. 

Volition, 


1. 


3. 

Faith, 


2. 


Immortal Life, 


2. 


Reason, 


2. 


Time, 


3. 


Mortal Life, 


3. 


Common Sense, 


3. 


Offspring, 


4. 


Material Body. 


4. 


Government. 


4. 


Divine Justice 



Number, 
Language, 
Power, 
Creation. 



5. 6. 

1. Love of the Sexes, 1. Marriage, 

2. Growth, • 2. Conception. 

3. Proportion, 3. Gestation, 



4. Material Form. 



4. Birth. 



These six families, as they are numbered, flow into each other as — 

1. Principle. 

2. Law. 

3. Result. 

4. Cause. 

5. Effect. 

6. Use. 

The Principle of the First, by the Law of the Second, flows into 
the Third as a Result ; which Result in the Fourth family as a Cause, 
by the Fifth as an Effect, flows into the Sixth, as a Use, in the Organ- 
ization of the species of Man. 
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By taking the several terms in their order, reading from left to- 
right, by the combinations of this Language, four grand Axioms are- 
expressed. 

Thus, by taking all the ideas numbered one, in the several fam- 
ilies, and arranging them as below, we have the following terms or 
ideas : 



1. 


Mind. 


2. 


Volition. 


3. 


Faith. 


4. 


Number. 


5. 


Love of the Sexes. 


6. 


Marriage. 



By reading them as individual members of the several six families 
in the Language of Nature, by which Principle is conducted to Use, 
we have the following Axiom : 

The Principle of Mind, by the Law of Volition, flows into Faith as 
a Result: which Result, in Number, (as of the sexes), as a Cause, by 
the Love of the Sexes as an Effect, flows into Marriage of the Sexes 
as a Use. 

To obtain the Second Axiom, we take all the terms or Ideas num- 
bered two, and arrange them in similar order, as in the following : 



1. 


Immortal Life. 


2. 


Reason. 


3. 


Time. 


4. 


Language. 


5. 


Growth. 


6. 


Conception. 



Axiom 2. The Principle of Immortal Life, by the Law of Reason, 
flows into existence in Time as a Result : which Result in the Lan- 
guage of Nature as a Cause, by Growth as an Effect, flows into Con- 
ception as a Use. 

To obtain the Third Axiom, we take all the terms or Ideas num- 
bered three, and place them in the order in which we have placed the 
others, as follows, to-wit : 



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1. Mortal Life. 

2. Oommon Sense. 

3. Offspring. 

4. Power. 

5. Proportion. 

6. Gestation. 

Axiom 3. The Principle of Mortal Life, by the Law of Common 
Sense, flows into Offspring as a Result : which Result in Power as a 
Cause, by Proportion as an Effect, flows into new being in Gestation 
as a Use. 

The Fourth Axiom is obtained by taking all the terms numbered 
Four, arranged in their regular order, as below, to-wit : 



1. 


Material Body. 


2. 


Government. 


3. 


Divine Justice. 


4. 


Creation. 


5. 


Form. 


6. 


Birth. 



Axiom 4. The Principle of the Material Body, by the Law of its 
Government, flows into Offspring as a Result: which result in Creation 
as a Cause, by Form as an Effect, flows into the Birth of a new Hu- 
man Being as a Use. 

Of the four families of six terms each, in the order assigned above, 
the First is the Organizing Power in its relation to the other three, 
to-wit : 



1. 


Mind. 


2. 


Volition. 


3. 


Faith. 


4. 


Number. 


5. 


Love of the Sexes. 


6. 


Marriage. 



The second family of six terms has the office of Perpetuation, 
to-wit : 



3G 



1. 


Immortal Life 


2. 


Reason. 


3. 


Time. 


4. 


Language. 


5. 


Growth. 


6. 


Conception. 



The third family of six terms has the office of Sustenance, to-wit : 

1. Mortal Life. 

2. Common Sense. 

3. Offspring. 

4. Power. 

5. Proportion. 

6. Gestation. 

The fourth family of six terms has the office of Protection, to-wit : 

*1. Material Body. 

2. govermment. 

3. Divine Justice. 

4. Creation. 

5. Form. 

6. Birth. 

In the production of the new human being the Material Body of 
the parent is its Protection on the line of Principle. 
Government is its Protection on the line of Law. 
Divine Justice is its Protection on the line of Result. 
Creation is its Protection on the line of Cause. 
Form is its Protection on the line of Effect. 
Birth is its Protection on the line of Use. 



*We now place these terms in another form, to-wit : 

Principle. Material Body. Cause. Creation. 

Law. Government. Effect. Form. 

Result. Divine Justice Use. Birth. 

In reproduction, the terms may be read into each other as follows, to-wit : 
The Power of Creation of new being as a Cause, developing the Principal of 
new life in the Material Body by the Law of its Government, gives new Form as the 
Effect. The Result is Divine justice in reference thereto, and the Birth of a new 
human Mortal and Immortal being, to perpetuate the life of the species of Man, as 
the Use. 

In that way, all the other families may be read, the several terms making sense 
and defining their several places in reproduction. 



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Birth is thus a grand Protecting Use of Man in his Personality 
and of Man in his Species. 

Thus, in the progress of Life, all the twenty-four terms of the fore- 
going combination, for the purposes above, concentrate and issue in the 
last term, Birth. 

Birth is the door through which all the human beings that have 
lived since our first parents have entered into this world of action, 
duty and responsibility, in individual consciousness of Soul, and all 
who will enter it, must come in the same way. Can we not believe, 
with the same certainty of Faith, that the new human being, on his 
first breathing existence in this world, may be possessed in himself of 
all the elements of fullness, in all the parts of himself, defined in the 
order of God and recognized in the Rational Faculties of Man, where- 
by the full Organizing power, the full [Perpetuating power, the full 
Sustaining power and the full Protecting power, in Principle, Law, 
Result, Cause and Effect defend from its enemies a full and perfect Use 
of Manhood. As man is the highest form of earthly creation, this 
practical Result of endowment with fullness would be and is the highest 
form of Human Faith. 

Man, full in his Organization, Perpetuation, Sustenance and Pro- 
tection, developed in every part in Principle, Law, Result, Cause, 
Effect and Use, is a truth of God. The Mind of Man can apprehend 
this truth, and combine in it in like truth, and this is Faith in relation 
to this thing. According to the clearness of this Faith in the Public 
Mind of a Nation, will be the fullness of Power and the fullness of the 
expression of that power in and by the Rational Faculties in science, 
in art, and in true and permanent civilization, and in the health and 
well being of those individually who compose that Nation. In other 
words, ft would be the Faith in a full and perfect Manhood, developed 
into a complete practical Use. 



OF TIME. 



We have treated of Faith as the Organizing power of Mind. Let 
us now speak of Time as the Perpetuating power of Man in his Life 
and in all things pertaining to its constant flow. In every required 
action in organization the Mind has Faith in Time. In the least pos- 
sible, as well as the greatest possible motion in Matter a certain definite 
portion of Time is required in which to perform it, which portion may 
be defined by Number, in Mathematical Faith. The fundamental 
powers of Number are these, to- wit : 



1. 


Nothing. 


2. 


Unity. 


3. 


Addition. 


4. 


Subtraction. 


5. 


Multiplication. 


6. 


Division. 



For by these six terms, Faith of Mind organizes all things in Man 
with a view to perpetuation. By these ideas, Faith in the Principle of 
Nothing, or space, by the Law of Unity, Adds, Subtracts, Multiplies 
and Divides, each for its special Use, the substances that enter into 
the construction of the human Body. It weighs and measures each 
and every particle with the exactness of Number, which particles are 
each, one by one, transported to the place in the body where Avanted, 
in a certain portion of Time, for healthful Use : for they move in the 
process by the order of the Language of God in Nature, which Lan- 
guage consists of these terms, to-wit : 



1. 


Principle. 


2. 


Law. 


3. 


Result. 


4. 


Cause. 


5. 


Effect. 


6. 


Use. . 



As in Number all things in Time are Organized in Man, so, in this 
Language they are Perpetuated. 



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But, Perpetuity in Time must be Sustained in its office, which is 
done by these six terras, to-wit : 

1. Order. 

2. Obedience. 

3. Inhabitant. 

4. Habitation. 
I'-. Control. 

6. Defence. 

All that is organized in truth by Faith in Number, and is Perpetu- 
ated in Language, is Sustained by these last six terms in the work of 
their offices. Not a particle of Matter is divided from other particles, 
in virtue of the first six terms, or is moved to its Use in virtue of the 
second six, but is Sustained on its way to and in that Use in virtue of 
the third six terms. Order is essential to the attainment in Nature of 
any Use. But, how can there be Order, without Obedience? Or how 
Obedience without an Inhabitant to Obey ? An Inhabitant must have 
a Habitation in Life ; and an Inhabitant in Life must have the power 
of Control, and the Use of Control is Defence from enemies, in what- 
ever form they come, in Time. 

The fourth family of six terms in the analysis of Time are these, 
to-wit : 

1. Mind. 

2. Action. 

3. Life. 

4. Matter. 

5. Inertia. 

6. Time. 

All the things of earth are contained in these six terms, to-wit : 

1. Mind. 

2. Life. 

3. Matter. 

Action is a property of Mind. Inertia is a property of Matter. 
Action is the opposite of Inertia. 

Time is evolved by the motion of matter ; and the motion of mat- 
ter is evolved by the action of mind overcoming its inertia. The ac- 
tion of mind strives to overcome the inertia of matter for the Uses of 
Life. The inertia of matter resists. In the contest, the action of 



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mind overcomes the inertia of matter, but the resistance of inertia 
modifies the action of mind, and thus Time is evolved for each specific 
Use, in the order of Principle, Law, Result, Cause and Effect. Thus, 
the whole human body and each distinct part thereof, in its organiza- 
tion, perpetuation, sustenance and protection, is kept in the fullness of 
health in life in accordance with the evolution of Time by the motion 
of matter, suitable to the complete formation ot each and every part. 
A portion of food, for instance, is taken into the stomach. It is there 
divided and sent each different substance of which it is composed to its 
appropriate place of use, — some part goes to the formation of bone, 
some of muscle, and so of other constituent parts of the body. Each 
portion is carried to its place of final use, in a definite portion of Time, 
in virtue of the fact, that the action of Mind has overcome the constant 
disposition' of Inertia of Matter to a state of rest, and this disposition 
of Inertia has affected and modified the action of Mind in such a way, 
that the particle reaches the exact spot designed in the exact time de- 
manded for its purpose in building up the body, and in protecting it in 
the fullness of health in those parts that have passed off, having accom- 
plished their appointed uses and retired to give place to others in the 
same office. So of every action of the human body. 

So of the formation of new beings, springing from the old, differ- 
ing in personality, but the same in substance, and bearing the same 
image ; and which in time, are separated from those that bear them, as 
the ripe fruit falls in due time from the parent tree. 

I propose to raise my arm, and do raise it. In doing this, the 
Action of Mind has overcome the Inertia of Matter. A Use has been 
Effected by a Cause, which Cause was the Result of some Law, de- 
veloping a Principle. In the contest between the Action of Mind and 
the Inertia of Matter as to which shall overcome the other, Time is 
evolved in a certain proportion adapted to the purposed use. 

In all this, Mind is the Organizing power in the purpose ; the 
Action of Mind is the Perpetuating power of the purpose ; Inertia is 
the Sustaining power, by modifying Action and securing the due pro 
portion of Time in the movement of the Matter of the Arm, with a 
view to the Use of the action ; Matter itself, of the Arm, is the Pro- 
tecting power of the whole. 

So, of every motion of the human body, whether it be voluntary 



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or involuntary, whether the motion be of the whole body, or that of 
the least pulsation thereof. 

In this simple action are employed 

1. The Organizing power of Mind. 

2. The Perpetuating power of Action. 

3. The Sustaining power of Inertia. 

4. The Protecting power of Matter. 

The whole has been perfected in its purposed Use, by 

1. Principle. 

2. Law. 

3. Result. 

4. Cause. 

5. Effect. 

In this way is formed every part and tissue of the human body in 
Life. Every particle of Matter intended for some use in building up 
the body is weighed and measured by Mind with a view to that use, 
in definite proportion and quantity, defined by Number, and the action 
of removing it to its place and incorporating it with the body as a part 
thereof, is proportioned and guaged by Time, with the view to the use 
of the whole, and its protection. 

The Twenty-four terms that combine to make Time a great Pro- 
tecting Use, in the highest created earthly being, with the view to his 
Organization, Perpetuation, Sustenance and Protection, in person and 
in his species, are these, to-wit : 



1. 


Nothing, 


1. 


Principle, 


1. 


Order. 


1. 


Mind, 


2. 


Unity, 


2. 


Law, 


2. 


Obedience, 


■>. 


Action, 


3. 


Addition, 


3. 


Result, 


3. 


Inhabitant, 


3. 


Life, 


4. 


Subtraction, 


4. 


Cause, 


4. 


Habitation, 


4. 


Matter, 


5. 


Multiplication, 


5. 


Effect, 


5. 


Control, 


5. 


Inertia. 


6. 


Divison, 


6. 


Use. 


6. 


Defence. 


6. 


Time. 



These terms, in their respective divisions, may each be read in the 
Language of God in Nature, (which is the second family in the whole 
combination,) and an Axiom of Common Sense expressed, to-wit : 

Axiom 1. — The Principle of Nothing, or space, by the Law of 
Unity, flows into Addition as a Result, in the progress of Life in gen- 
eration : which Result in Substraction as a Cause, by Multiplication 
as an Effect, terminates in the Division of a New being from the parent 
stock in Birth as a Use. 



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Axiom 2. — Principle, by Law flows into Result — which Result in 
"Cause, by Effect, flows into Use, and this is the Language of God in 
living Nature, in Time. 

Axiom 3. — The Principle of Order, by the Law of Obedience, 
flows into the Inhabitant in Life as a Result — which Result in the 
Habitation of Life, (the Material Body), as a Cause, by its Control as 
an Effect, flows into its Defence as a Use. 

Axiom 4. — The Principle of Mind, by the Law of its Action, 
flows into Life as a Result : which Result in Matter as a Cause, by 
Inertia as an Effect, flows into Time, by evolution, as a Great Protect- 
ing Use in the Organization, Perpetuation, Sustenance and Protection 
of Man, in his person and in his Species. 

The last two families may be read into each other as follows, in 
Common Sense : 

Erom Order in Mind, by Obedience in Action, flows on Inhabitant 
in Life : Erom Habitation, in Matter, by the Control of Inertia, flows 
Defence in Time of the being of Man. 

The three families of six terms, as below, can be read into each 
other in order as follows, and an Axiom in Nature educed : 

The Principle of Order in Mind, by Law of Obedience in Action, 
Remits in an Inhabitant in Life : Which from Habitation in Matter 
as a Cause, by Control, of Inertia as an Effect, flows Defense in Time 
as a Use. 

Or, the four Families may be read into each other, as follows : ' 

The Principle of Nothing (or space,) in the Order of Mind, by the 
Law of Unity in Obedience of Action, Results in Addition of an In- 
habitant in Life : From Subtraction as a Cause of a Habitation in 
Matter, with the Multiplication of Control of Inertia as an Effect, 
flows the Division of a new being from the Parent Stock in Time as a 
Use. 



OF OFFSPRING. 



The third great combination of Twenty-four terms, in this special 
•connection, is Offspring. Faith in Time flows into Offspring, in the 
order of Nature in the perpetual progress of organized Life in the 
Species, of which latter Offspring is the Sustaining power. The 
twenty-four terms, in four families of six terms each, are disposed as 
follows, to-wit: 



1st. 


3d. 


3d. 


4th. 


Soul, 


Mouth, 


Respiratory System, 


Self, 


Senses, 


Stomach, 


Alimentary System, 


Neighbor, 


Passions. 


Bowels, 


Osseous System, 


Species, 


Sympathy, 


Lungs, 


Mental System, 


Male, 


Will, 


Heart, 


Nervous System, 


Female, 


Judgment, 


Blood, 


Muscular System, 


Offspring. 



The first of these families combined is the Organizing power of 
Man in his Personality, and hence, of his Species, with a view to Sus- 
tenance of the whole. 

The second family is the Perpetuating power for the same object, 
with a view to the Sustenance of Man, in himself and in his Species. 

The third family is the Sustaining power of the Sustaining power 
for che same great Use. 

The fourth family is the Protecting power of the Sustaining power 
of Man in himself and in his Species. 

The first family of six terms in this combination is that of Organ- 
ization, and is as follows : 



1. 


The Soul. 


2. 


The Senses. 


3. 


The Passions. 


4. 


The Sympathies, 


5. 


The Will. 


6. 


The Judgment. 



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The Soul occupies the place of Principle. 
The Senses occupy the place of Law. 
The Passions occupy the place of Result. 
The Sympathies occupy the place of Cause. 
The Will occupies the place of Effect. 
The Judgment occupies the place of Use. 

In combined action these may be read thus: 

The Sympathies, as a Cause, meeting and developing the Principle 
of the Soul, by the Law of the Senses, flows into the Will, as an 
Effect. The Result is the Passions, for the Use of the Judgment. 

The Organizing power expresses itself in the Perpetuating power, 
in human Personality, which latter power consists of these six terms, 
to-wit : 

"" 1. The Mouth. 

2. The Stomach. 

3. The Bowels. 

4. The Lungs. 

5. The Heart. 

6. The Blood. 

These are the organs of the Man, by which his own Life is Per- 
petuated in the Material Body by Sustenance, and by which, in Off- 
spring, Life is Perpetuated in the Species. Were either of these 
organs omitted, no new tissue could be formed for the supply of the 
place of the old whose use has been accomplished, having served its 
time. Or, if any of them were impaired or weakened so that *their 
office could not be well fulfilled, the action of the whole would be affected 
in their harmonious order, in conducting power from its Principle into 
its Use, in thus perpetuating the structure of the Material Body in 
continual fullness. 

The Mouth Perpetuates Organization of Mind on the line of Prin- 
ciple. 

The Stomach perpetuates on the line of Law. 
The Bowels perpetuate on the line of Result. 
The Lungs perpetuate on the line of Cause. 
The Heart perpetuates on the line of Effect. 
The Blood perpetuates on the line of Use. 



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All the actions of the six organs, in their natural relations to the 
healthy order of the Body, have a distinct relation to Faith in Time, 
in the production of new tissue for oneself, or of Offspring. 

In reproduction ; in the Sustenance of Life, in constant Action, 
the six terms may be read into one another in this order, to-wit : 

The Lungs as a Cause, develope the Principle of the Mouth, by 
the Law of the Stomach, for Effect in the Heart. The Bowels occupy 
the place of Result, for the Use of the Blood, — the Habitation of Life. 

The Sustaining Power of both the Organizing and Perpetuating 
Powers, in this combination, consists in the six Systems of Man in his 
individual person, to-wit : 

1. The Respiratory System. 

2. The Alimentary System. 

3. The Osseous System. 

4. The Mental System. 

5. The Nervous System. 

6. The Muscular System. 

The Respiratory System Sustains the life and structure of Man by 
receiving the air we breathe by the Mouth and Nostrils into the Lungs. 
It divides the Oxygen thereof from the Nitrogen, and by the Organiz- 
ing and Perpetuating powers, conducts each to its appropriate Use by 
the Lungs into the Blood. Combustion is a property of Oxygen, as 
Action is a property of Mind. In Nitrogen a property exists that is 
the opposite in Effect from the combustion of Oxygen, as Inertia in 
Matter is the opposite of the Action of Mind. Wherever there is 
healthful organization in Life in Man, there is also discovered the 
presence of Nitrogen. The combustion of Oxygen is modified by the 
quality opposed to combustion in Nitrogen, otherwise the tissues of the 
human body in the process of formation would be destroyed by burning 
up, instead of being formed and kept perfect for Use in Life. In the 
Respiratory System, the anti-combustive power in Nitrogen so modifies 
the combustion of Oxygen, that the pressure of both, in due proportion 
meeting each other in each and in every part, Sustains Life by furnish- 
ing a due proportion of heat to every part of the body, and in prevent- 
ing the combustion of Oxygen from doing too much, and preventing 
the anti-combustion in Nitrogen from doing too much or too little in 



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its office. In this way, by the due presence of these opposite elements 
in all parts of the Body, and in virtue of the opposing action of each of 
the other, an atmosphere, if we may so call it, is evolved, in which the 
Organizing and Perpetuating powers of the Life of Man can exist, and 
in which they work in harmony with the Sustaining power of Man, on 
the Line of Principle. The action of the combustion of Oxygen, and 
the counter influence of an opposite power in Nitrogen, in this case, 
may be compared in its effect to the action of Mind on the Inertia of 
Matter, which results in the evolution of Time, in the previous combi- 
nation of Twenty -four terms, in which life exists. 

In this way, the tissues of the Body, in a healthy state, are prevented 
from being consumed, as in the disease of Consumption, because the 
anti-combustive property in Nitrogen has lost its power to prevent it, 
or from perishing from cold, by too much power exerted by the same 
element.* 

The Alimentary System takes similar charge of the food that we 
receive into the Body, that the Respiratory System does of the air, but 
the second term, in relation to the first, in Sustaining the Man, acts as 
a Law to a Principle — one developing the other. It divides the food 

*The formula may be stated in this way : 
1. The Action of Mind. 
2.- The Inertia of Matter. 

3. The Combustion of Oxygen. 

4. The Anti- Combustion of Nitrogen. 

As is the Action of Mind to the Inertia of Matter, in the evolution of Time, so 
is the Combustion of Oxygen in the human body to the Anti- Combustion of Nitrogen, 
as a Condition of the evolution of Mortal Life therein. 

But, here are only four terms that, by their opposition, modify each other in 
action, to the accomplishment of a great purpose, aiming at a constant and essential 
Use. There must be six of these terms to give order to the unerring progress, and 
the whole must have similarity in character to enable them to combine. The other 
two are probably positive and negative Electricity, and the six terms may stand to 
each other in the following order, from Principal to Use, to- wit : 

1. Action of Mind. 

2. Inertia of Matter. 

3. Positive Electricity. 

4. Negative Electricity. 

5. Combustion of Oxygen. 

6. Anti-Combustion of Nitrogen. 
The combination of the formula may be this : 

The Principle of the Action of Mind, by the Law of the Inertia of Matter, flows 
into Positive Electricity as a Result : which Result, by Negative Electricity as a 
Cause, by the Combustion of Oxygen as an Effect, flows into Anti- Combustion of 
Nitrogen as a Use. 






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that we receive into the stomach, and with the organizing and perpetu- 
ating powers in Faith, in Time, each particle is separated from other 
particles, and each and all are weighed and measured, and transported 
to the place of Use in the formation of new tissue of the Body, and 
each in its appointed Time, in the order of Principle, Law, Result, 
Cause and Effect. 

The System of the Bones (the Osseous System), is the framework 
of the Man, and occupies the place of Result. It is the soil in which 
the Nerves find root, and from which intelligence goes out to move the 
Muscles, and by which the action of Mind overcomes the Inertia of 
Matter. In this System the whole Body is Sustained in its proper 
place, and each and every member fixed for its special Use. In the 
Physical form, it is the Sustaining Result of power in Man, and this 
expression is a type of all its offices in every respect ; and all of its 
offices are represented in the twenty-four vertebrae of the spinal col- 
umn in Man. If this be firm and strong, all that it upholds will be 
firm and strong also. On it rests the Mental, Nervous and Muscular 
Systems of Man. In the sense that the germ of the root sustains the 
tree, it sustains Human Offspring. 

The Sustaining Cause of all this action in Man is the Mental 
System : For, action is a property of Mind, and hence all the move- 
ments of Matter in the human Body are caused by the action of Mind 
overcoming, for specific Use, the Inertia of Matter therein. It affects 
the Respiratory System as a Cause of action in any process affects a 
Principle of action. It affects the Nervous System, as an Effect fol- 
lows a Cause. Were this System removed from Man, he would be no 
longer Man. He would fall, in person and in Species, into the brute 
or into nothingness. 

The Nervous System flows from the Mental System as an Effect 
from a Cause. It is the machinery by which the Mental System con- 
veys its mandates to all parts of the Material Body. By this System, 
the command is conveyed to the Muscular System, in the attainment 
of any Use, and it obeys. Mind purposes that the arm be raised. 
The Nerves convey the command to the appropriate Muscles, and the 
thing is done. All the other Machinery adapts itself to this specific 
Use. The action of Mind has overcome the Inertia of Matter, by the 
direct means of the Nervous and Muscular Systems, and the purpose 
is accomplished. 



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The Sixth System is the Muscular. It is the Sustaining power 
of action, and its relation to the other five Systems of the Mind, Life 
and Body is that of Use. All right action terminates in Use. In 
the Muscles the action of Mind meets the Inertia of Matter, and in 
them is the battle-field that decides the mastery that fixes the Use. 
If the purpose of the Mental System, conveyed by the Nerves to the 
Muscles, cannot by its action overcome the disposition in the Matter 
of the bone and Muscles to a state 'of rest, (Inertia,) the arm will not 
be moved. So of the contrary. All the terms of the Language of 
Nature are expressed in every right action of the Muscular System. 
In the combination of the twenty -four terms that flow into the creation 
of new Offspring, it is the Sustaining Use. 

The foregoing Systems are the Sustaining power of Man in his 
Personality and hence in his Species. 

The Respiratory System has the office of a Sustaining Principle. 
The Alimentary System has the office of a Sustaining Law. 
The Osseous System has the office of a Sustaining Result. 
The Mental System has the office of a Sustaining Cause. 
The Nervous System has the office of a Sustaining Effect. 
The Muscular System has the office of a Sustaining Use. 

The above systems may be read into each other thus, in natural 
order, in reproduction, to-wit : 

The Mental System, as a Cause of action, developes the Principle 
of continued life in the Respiratory System, by the Law of the Ali- 
mentary System, and the Nervous System is the Effect. The System 
of the Bones is the Result for the Use of the Muscular System. 

The fourth family of the twenty-four terms in this combination has 
the character of Protection, in relation to itself and to the three interior 
families. The terms of the familv are these : 



1. 


Self. 


2. 


Neighbor. 


3. 


Species. 


4. 


Male. 


5. 


Female. 


6. 


Offspring 



The first of these, Self, as an individual personality, contains the 



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property of Protection in its own right. It can rightfully defend itself 
from its enemies to the full extent of its power, and this on Principle. 
We call this Principle the instinct of self-preservation. 

This right of Self-protection unites with the like instinct of the 
Neighbor, which is any other than oneself, as a Principle Hows into a 
Law. The two are then united in Principle and Law. These two 
terms, Self and Neighbor include the whole Species of Man. Such is 
the Result of combination for mutual Protection against enemies that 
are stronger than oneself. Hence, the Principle of Self-protection 
naturally flows into that of the Protection of the Species, as any Prin- 
ciple, by Law, flows into its Result, from Cause and Effect. 

The fourth term in this combination is the Male, in the two Sexes, 
in which is contained the Principle and Cause of new life and being 
in the generation of new Selfhood, to supply the place of those taken 
away by death. 

The fifth term is the Female, whose office, in the generation of 
new Selfhood, for the above purpose, in relation to the Male, is as an 
Effect to a Cause. The Cause is in the Male, the Effect in the Female. 

Offspring, the sixth term, proceeds from the Union of the two sexes, 
as Male and Female, as Cause and Effect, by Principle and Law, and the 
Result is a Protecting Use in Self-preservation of the Species of Man. 

In this combination, Self is the Protecting power on the line of 
Principle. 

Neighbor is the Protecting power on the line of Law. 

Species is the Protecting power on the line of Result. 

Male is the Protecting power on the line of Cause. 

Female is the Protecting power on the line of Effect. 

Offspring is the Protecting power of the Selfhood of the Species on 
the line of Use. 

The Principle of Protection of human Life in Self, by the Law of 
a similar right in Neighbor, flows into the right of the Protection of 
the Species of Man as a Result : which Result in the Male as a Cause 
by the Female as an Effect, flows into Offspring as a Use. 

These terms, in their order, in reproduction, may be read thus : 

The Male, as a Cause, developing the Principle of new Selfhood 
in the Neighbor by Marriage, as the Law, flows into the Female as an 
Effect. The Result is the preservation of the Species of Man in the 
birth of Offspring, as the great Protecting Use, 



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In the foregoing it will be seen, that the Protecting Uses are these : 

1. The Judgment of Mind. 

2. The Blood. 

3. The Muscular System. 

4. Human Offspring. 

1. The Judgment of Mind Organizes. 

2. The Blood Perpetuates. 

3. The Muscular System Sustains. 

4. The Offspring Protects the one within the other, all the things 
of Faith and Time that are represented in the Offspring of Man. 

The Protecting Powers are these : 

1. Self. 

2. Neighbor. 

3. Species. 

4. Male. 

5. Female. 

6. Offspring. 

Thus, Offspring is the Great Protecting Use that Sustains in con- 
tinued existence the Species of Man. 



OF DIVINE JUSTICE. 



We have now completed the fundamental analysis of the three 
great and comprehensive powei's of Faith, Time and Offspring. The 
fourth power that encompasses the whole is Divine Justice. It is the 
Protecting power of man in Society, for in it are represented the 
Family, the Nation and Providence. It consists of Twenty-four terms, 
divided into four families, consisting of six members each, to-wit : 



1. 


Father, 


1. 


The Executive Power, 


o 


Mother, 


2. 


The Legislative Power, 


3. 


Child, 


3. 


The Judicial Power, 


4. 
5. 


Family, 

Family Government, 


4. 
5. 


The Popular Power, 

The National Government, 


6. 


Family Justice. 


6. 


National Justice. 




3. 




4, 


1. 


The Nervous Temperament, 


1. 


God the Father, 


2. 


The Bilious Temperament, 


2. 


God the Son, 


3. 
4. 

5. 


The Sanguine Temperament, 
The Lymphatic Temperament, 
The Providential Government, 


3. 
4. 
5. 


God the Holy Spirit. 

One God, 

Divine Government, 


6. 


Providential Justice. 


6. 


Divine Justice. 



The first of these combinations of power is that of the Family. It 
is the Organizing power in Society of Man. If it be full and perfect, 
all the external powers that perpetuate, sustain and protect it will be 
affected in action by it. 

The second combination is that of the Nation. It envelopes and 
permeates that of the Family, of which it is the Perpetuating power. 

The third combination is that of Providence. It envelopes and 
permeates both the Family and the Nation, of whom it is the Sustain- 
ing power. 



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The fourth combination is that of the Divine. It envelopes and 
permeates the order and power of the Family, the Nation and of Provi- 
dence, and is the Protecting power of the whole. 

The first, in the second, in the third, is protected in the fourth. 
In this four-fold line of defence is Man and his rights organized, per- 
petuated, sustained and protected on earth, in Society. 

The Effective power in all this is Government, and the Use of 
G-overnment in Society is Justice. 

Family Justice, in National Justice, in Providential Justice, finds 
Protection in Divine Justice. 

The Organization of the Family is Perpetuated in the Nation, is 
Sustained in Providence, and Protected in the Justice of God. 

The Family gives the Nation its Numbers ; the Nation gives Lan- 
guage ; Providence, in the Temperaments, gives Power, and God gives 
Creation. 

The Family Organizes in Faith; the Nation Perpetuates. in Time ; 
Providence Sustains both in Offspring, and all are Protected in Divine 
Justice. 

The representative uses of the combination are the four forms of 
Justice, and the three uses first named and numbered flow into the 
fourth, which is also the Protecting power of the whole. 

Let us dwell on the subject of these Governments a little farther. 
The first is that of the Family, to-wit : 

1. Father. 

2. Mother. 

3. Child. 

4. Family. 

5. Family Government. 

6. Family Justice. 

These may be read in the six terms of the Language of Rational 
Nature as follows, to-wit : 

The Principle of Life in the Father, by the Law of Life in the 
Mother, flows into the Child in generation as a Result : which Result 
in the Family as a Cause, by Family Government as an Effect, flows 
into Family Justice as a Use. 



The terms that pertain to the National Government are as follows, 
to -wit : 

1. The Executive Power. 

2. The Legislative Power. 

3. The Judicial Power. 

4. The Popular Power. 

5. The National Government. 

6. National Justice, 
which may be read : 

The Principle of Justice in the Executive power, denned by Law 
in the Legislative power, flows into the Judicial power as a Result : 
which Result in the Popular power as a Cause, in National Govern- 
ment as an Effect, flows into the exercise and order of National Justice 
as a Use.* 

Where these six terms harmonize in action, the Nation fulfils its 
office, and the People are safe, prosperous and happy. Where there is 
not harmony of action, and where one usurps the place of another, the 
disproportion works disorder in the body politic, as it would disease in 
the individual Man. 

The third Habitation and Use of Justice is the Providential. It 
envelopes National and Family Justice, both of which owe it allegiance, 
and which it sustains. It exists in the following six ideas or terms : 

*These terms may be placed in a different form, to more clearly comprehend their 
relations to each other and to the whole, in reproduction, to-wit : 

1. The Executive Power. 4- The Popular Power. 

2- The Legislative Power. 5. The National Government. 

S. The Judicial Power. 6. National Justice. 

The Popular Power stands to the Executive Power of a Nation as a Caxise to a 
Principle. 

The Legislative Power stands to the National Government as a Law to its Effect. 
The Judicial Power stands to National Justice as a Result to its Use. 
In all this — 

The Executive Power represents Principle. 
The Legislative Power represents Law. 
The Judicial Povjer represents Residt. 
The Popular Power represents Cause. 
National Government represents Effect. 
National Justice represents Use. 

In all reproduction in Nature, a Cause of action seeks to develop a Principle of 
action, by appropriate Law, for an Effect, with a Result for a Use ; so in true Govern- 
ment, the Popular Power, as a Cause of action, seeks to develop its Principle in the 
Executive Power, by the Legislative Power in the enactment of appropriate Laws, 
and the whole Effect is represented in the Judiciary Power. The Residt is, National 
Government, and hence, National Justice as a Use. 



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1. The Nervous Temperament. 

2. The Bilious Temperament. 

3. The Sanguine Temperament. 

4. The Lymphatic Temperament. 

5. The Providential Government. 

6. Providential Justice. 






These Temperaments permeate and encompass all living things, to 
which they give the power of character in proportion to their fullness 
in individuals. They bind together all living things, as individuals or 
nations, internally and externally, as the different systems of power in 
Man bind together all his parts in one. They are the soil in the being 
from which actions spring, or by which they govern or obey. God 
speaks by them to Man, in Man, and by them, in all Nature, he pro- 
vides man and beast his food, and thus, by general laws, protects all 
things in life that have life, for their appointed use. By them God 
raises up leaders to defend the innocent in a righteous cause, and in 
them the Providence of God can meet the Providence of Man, and 
govern him for good. It is the third protecting goverment of man, in 
his personality. In its effect, it gives power to a nation on the general 
average. In proportion, as the average of the Temperaments of the 
individuals composing a nation is strong, so will the nation be pow- 
erful. 

The Fourth and the highest possible Government is the Divine. 
It exists in the following six terms : 

1. God the Father. 

2. God the Son. 

3. God the Holy Spirit. 

4. One God. 

5. Divine Government. 

6. Divine Justice. 

The first three expressions, as related to each other, are one, and 
cannot be increased or diminished by multiplication or division by or 
with each other, any more than the number one can be increased by 
multiplication or division, with or by itself, and as nothing can be sub- 
tracted from the selfhood of the Highest Possible, and as nothing 
can be added to it, the three terms, in relation to each other, are 



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ONE GOD, and no other form of language can express the meaning.* 
Such is the analysis of the four great ideas of Human Progress 
and Destiny, to-wit : 

1 . Faith. 

2. Time. 

3. Offspring. 

4. Divine Justice. 

The ninety-six parts, which comprehend the whole, meet in Di- 
vine Justice as their sure Protection ; and as we can only think of 
that as a term, in itself as being full and perfect, so we can think of 
the three terms within it, (Faith, Time and Offspring) as being full and 
perfect, and this mode of thought will regenerate the world. 

If, to the Ninety-six terms, which are contained in Divine Justice, 
be added the powers of Organization, Perpetuation, Sustenance and 
Protection, the whole make just one hundred, which number may 
represent the idea of Fullness in Man in completeness. These one 
hundred terms are so many essential Truths of God, in which the 
Faith of Man can combine, and in virtue of that combination, there 
will be a constant approximation to fullness in the generation of Man, 
in Organization, Perpetuation, Sustenance and Protection, and all the 
Progress will have been made by a Cause developing a Principle, by 
its Law, hence an Effect, with a Result, for a Use. 

Such is the construction of Man. If it be the true theory when 
we think of its general plan, we think of man as God thought of him 
when he created him : and may not that very act of true thought of 
the mind of man tend to produce the same order in his constant creation 
now, and consequently tend in a like degree to prevent the disorders 
that are incident to him in his present state. In other words, the con- 
struction of man being in disorder, if we know what his order should 
be, and if we think of him according to that knowledge, may not the 
power of that knowledge, or faith, thus exercised in thought, become a 
positive force to produce order in him, by the Universal Arrangement 
by which a Principle of Truth flows into a beneficial Use, in the power 

*In prayer to God, the person praying is in the place of Cause, and the Being 
prayed to in the place of Principle. If the Laio by which the Cause developes the 
Principle be complied with in all its appropriate conditions, the Result follows in the 
bestowment of the thing prayed for, the character of the thing prayed for being 
formed by its intended Use. 



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of God. Think of man as he should be in this depth of his being, and 
you tend to make him what he should be, for you have in that act of 
Mind the power of the highest possible government to help you. As 
you exert the force of your Mind in the right direction, you prevent 
the formation of the wrong, for truth is always stronger than falsehood, 
if the two be attended with equal clearness of comprehension and force 
of character, for it has the help of the Divine Mind. If the knowledge 
is so clear to the mind as to be received into it as scientific faith, its 
truth is not then questioned, and it has full and unimpeded power in 
its action. The love of the good in any person supposes the equal 
hate of the opposing evil ; and by our love and practice of the good, 
we prevent the evil that otherwise would be. 

In Jesus Christ the Language of Universal Power in Creation was 
fully expressed in every particular and combination, both in the Divine 
and Human. From his place in the Divine Government he descended 
by or in the Providential, the National, and the Family Governments 
into the Human Personal, in which he dwelt in the fullness of Manhood 
in perfection, subjecting all beneath him to his power, and he became 
our Law, which place he occupies in the order of the Divine. Thus 
he opened the way in man from earth to Heaven ; and thus, by Christ's 
virtue, and not by our own, Man may enter into Eternal Life. All 
that can be expressed in Faith, Time, Offspring and Divine Justice, 
was and is made perfect in Jesus Christ, and through faith in that 
power and virtue is to come the "healing of the nations." The Use of" 
Creation was perfected in him, and in the virtue of that perfectness in 
Humanity comes all true Spirit and Form in Human Progress ; for 
Jesus Christ is an ever living presence. The fulness of power in the 
Human and Divine is with him to exert for the protection of the Life 
of man here and hereafter, for in Jesus Christ, in the fullness of 
Divine Justice is the fullness of Divine Mercy. 



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